Gautama Buddha Quotes

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This is deathless, the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

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Any kind of material form whatever, whether past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near, all material form should be seen as it actually is with proper wisdom thus: This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self.

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The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

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Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.

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As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

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Open are the doors to the Deathless
to those with ears.
Let them show their conviction.

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When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself

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That bhikkhu who has cut off passion in its entirety, like one picking a lotus, both flower and stalk, leaves this shore and the far shore as a snake leaves its old worn-out skin.

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In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

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Behold now, Bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

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Feeling conditions craving, craving conditions seeking, seeking conditions acquisition, acquisition conditions decision-making, decision-making conditions lustful desire, lustful desire conditions attachment, attachment conditions appropriation, appropriation conditions avarice, avarice conditions guarding of possessions, and because of guarding of possessions there arise the taking up of stick and sword, quarrels, disputes, arguments, strife, abuse, lying and other evil unskilled states.

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I spit on my life.
Death in battle would be better for me
than that I, defeated, survive.

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Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation — this is the greatest blessing.

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If he goes forth from the household life into homelessness, then he will become an Arahant, a fully-enlightened Buddha, one who draws back the veil from the world.

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It is in the nature of things that joy arises in a person free from remorse.

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The innumerable worlds in the cosmos are like the eyes of the net. Each and every world is different, its variety infinite. So too are the Dharma Doors (methods of cultivation) taught by the Buddhas.

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To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.

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Not by birth does one become an outcaste, not by birth does one become a brahman. By one's action one becomes an outcaste, by one's action one becomes a brahman.

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Just as with her own life, A mother shields from hurt, Her own son, her only child, Let all-embracing thoughts For all beings be yours.

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Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?

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As long, Sire, as a monk does not perceive the disappearance of the five hindrances in himself, he feels as if in debt, in sickness, in bonds, in slavery, on a desert journey. But when he perceives the disappearance of the five hindrances in himself, it is as if he were freed from debt, from sickness, from bonds, from slavery, from the perils of the desert.

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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
Whatever a mother, father or other kinsman might do for you, the well-directed mind can do for you even better.

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Leaving behind son and wife, and father and mother, and wealth and grain, and relatives, and sensual pleasures to the limit, one should wander solitary as a rhinoceros horn.

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As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.

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If it were not for women being admitted into [our order], my teachings would have lasted 1000 years, now they will not last 500.

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In a world become blind,
I beat the drum of the Deathless.

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Meditate … do not delay, lest you later regret it.

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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Just as the candle won't be shortened, one's happiness never decreases by being shared.

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